There is an energy flowing through all of Joachim Trier’s films that make them feel truly alive, like breathing organisms you can affect just by proximity, and which by default can also have an effect on you. In Louder Than Bombs, his first English f …Read more
Los Sures is a time-capsule of a New York City that’s long gone. Diego Echeverria’s documentary, comprised entirely of footage taken at the time and following a few select citizens, takes place in South Williamsburg in 1984. Once a neighborhood of ne …Read more
By the time of his untimely death at age 37, Rainer Werner Fassbinder had directed over 40 films and TV series that reshaped the way cinema and television were perceived. The enfant terrible of European cinema combined his vast knowledge of theatre, …Read more
It’s hard to divorce the music of John Williams from the moments it underscores on screen. An evening of the composer’s music presented at the close of the New York Pops’ season went a bit further, contending that Williams’ collaborations with Steven …Read more
Melissa McCarthy has already proven she can carry a film. Her razor sharp tongue and effortless charm alone are worth the ticket price but now she also takes a seat behind the typewriter, along with husband Ben Falcone (who also directs) and Steve Ma …Read more
Punk is tragic. Its rise and fall is the definitive proof that no amount of resistance to mass culture cannot be commercialized and re-consumed. Music producer, Mark Reeder’s, documentary on the punk scene in West Berlin at the end of the century is …Read more
What should a war photographer do: take a picture of people suffering to best represent their personal pain, or turn the picture into something larger and in doing so, reduce the figures at hand and potentially misrepresent them? These are the though …Read more
While grief is one of the most unruly emotions, movies about grief are usually dour and predictable affairs. Killing off a character’s significant other is simply too easy a way to garner sympathy for that character, which is why it’s a relief that D …Read more
Political theorist Hannah Arendt cuts a striking figure. In a rare 1964 German television interview and in selected stills, her physical profile summons the shadows. A succession of cigarettes aid her unvarnished demeanor with a noirish, vaporous fin …Read more
There is an almost Dickensian element in Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall, a bittersweet coming of age tale filtered through the experience of growing up within “the system”. When we first meet Malony, he is a toddler who seems unaware of the hell h …Read more
